Moving PowerPress generated RSS Feed to Buzzsprout.

@shawnogordo

I genuinely thank you for answering the questions that I posted in my thread, but as I read through the items on the thread that I started, I received a notification that led me to this Q&E.

While checking my emails, this question appeared in my WordPress forum responses; it sounded as if it might be a route to finding a solution for my problem is why I posted the item you find inappropriate.

BTW, I followed the advice you provided and joined a group on Facebook, but I have not posted a message to that board yet.

Thanks Shawn,

I will use the podcast you recommended. So what will happen if I deactivate PowerPress? Will I still have the rel=”alternate” on my website? Also, will the page with all the podcast episodes still be up? Or will i lose all those posts on my website. I remember creating a category called podcasts so that I could have my podcast posts be different from my blog posts.

Thanks

maxlwie

@maxlwie: I’m not sure what this means:

I will use the podcast you recommended

Will I still have the rel=”alternate” on my website?

If you deactivate PowerPress, you probably won’t have a rel/alternate link to your podcast feed anymore.

will the page with all the podcast episodes still be up?

Any Posts you created that contain Podcast Episodes will still be on your site. But the Podcast Episodes will go away and any media players generated by PowerPress on those Posts will vanish. Deactivating PowerPress shouldn’t have any impact on WordPress Categories you’ve created.

• This reply was modified 5 years, 9 months ago by Shawn.

Hey Shawn,

sorry I meant to say ” I will use the Redirection Plug-In you recommended”.

I know it is important to get a rel-alternate link on the site for google. Will google and other directories besides apple also grab my new rss feed link?

Thanks

• This reply was modified 5 years, 8 months ago by maxlwie.

Hello maxlwie,

The 301 redirect is the way to tell applications including Google and Apple that an address changed and where that new address changed to. Think of this as the mail forwarding feature from the postal service.

Once you move your podcast your website will no longer benefit from the podcast content you create, but I suspect you are aware of that since this is something you want to do.

Thanks,
Angelo

Hello Team,

due to some unfortunate events I have not been able to go through with the 301 redirect. Now after coming back to this issue I read some more articles on how to move an rss feed. Many of them say that a 301 redirect by itself is often not enough. I am hoping to retire my wordpress site in a year and therefore wont have the PowerPress RSS Feed up permanently after redirecting to my Buzzsprout RSS Feed. I also read that it is a good idea to include the “<itunes:new-feed-url>” tag in the feed that I am redirecting to. Finally, will I have to worry about the transfer of GUID on my episodes?

Thanks for all the help.

You’ll have to check with Buzzsprout support to see if their system carries over existing GUIDs when they import a podcast feed.

Hey team,

I have yet to redirect my powerpress rss feed to my buzzsprout rss feed. I am not doing this because I am unhappy with powerpress. Quite the contrary, you people are awesome! However, I dont think I will continue my wordpress site in the future. Therefore, I want to have everything in one place on my buzzsprout feed. In the past, before powerpress allowed spotify submissions I submitted my buzzsprout rss feed to spotify. However, I have had my powerpress rss feed submitted to apple from the beginning. So this whole time I have had two different feeds submitted, one to Spotify and one to Apple.

Now the simple thing would be to just set up a 301redirect with the Redirection plug in, because I already have all the episodes and show notes hosted on buzzsprout. However, in order to keep my GUIDs Buzzsprout wants me to import everything that is in my powerpress rss feed and then delete everything thats currently in my buzzsprout rss feed. NOW, here is what I worry about. All I have been doing is hosting the media files with buzzsprout and then I take the direct mp3 link that buzzsprout supplies and insert that into a new post on my wordpress site using the powerpress plug in. If I now import everything from my powerpress rss feed into buzzsprout will it copy the actual media files into it, since they are currently being hosted in buzzsprout? The only reason I would have to import anything is to keep the GUIDs. When I am taking that buzzsprout direct mp3 download link and inserting it in the powerpress plugin does that even create new GUIDs? Or should they be the same as the ones I already have in buzzsprout? I know this might sound confusing. It would be so much easier to explain over the phone.

Please help. This is what has kept me from doing my 301redirect for months. I have tried to explain my concerns to buzzsprout support, but they dont understand how powerpress works.

Thank you! I really appreciate the support

The GUID is generated by the POST in WordPress (not even a PowerPress thing)

I assume buzzsprout will keep those if you migrate/import in your WordPress feed. You buzzsprout mp3’s will stay linked just as they are. They are correct. Delete what you have, import in the PowerPress feed and do the redirect.

Spotify does not use GUID’s the same way as everyone else so it will not be a problem for them that your GUID’s change (I’m reasonablly sure).

-Mike
Blubrry Support